Fileplanet

FilePlanet

Website host of game content, 1999-2012
URL	http://www.fileplanet.com
Status	Special case (no longer being updated)
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint) (formerly #fireplanet (on EFnet))
Data^{[how to use]}	archiveteam-fileplanet

In 2012 FilePlanet announced it was no longer hosting new content, and "is in the process of being archived [by IGN]."

FilePlanet hosted tens of thousands of game-related files (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients.

The archival

After first downloading files by iterating IDs on the public website fileplanet.com and upload those in chunks to archive.org as well as scouting the web for other public URLs, we got FTP access to the storage servers by the staff. Thanks!

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet is the collection.

Unpacked and sorted it amounts to about ~120k files at ~10TB.

The "ftp2" files (another ~300k files at a total of ~1.2TB, also known as "fp2_archive") cannot be shared publicly since there are private files mixed in. These are e.g. files for "planetquake.com/foo/*" where the users uploaded private files their webspace. We saved them to IA anyways in a non-public way so maybe in the future we can sort them out. If you are looking for files from Fileplanet that are not included in the public archives, email User:Schbirid with archived URLs that prove their previous availability to the public, e.g. via archived fileplanet.com pages.